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LordDyran Started conversation Jun 9, 2004
On the 'Why Be An ACE?' page, you have the sentence 'get a Ace badge on your Personal Space, and get listed in the Aces drop-down list (an example is on the Aces' Home Page.' There are two problems: 1) there should be a closing parenthesis and 2) it should be 'an ACE badge'.
I hope this is the right place; it's where the ACE told me to go.
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 10, 2004
lord your a picky 1 i see.well i dont bother with owt like that so dont worry about something thats pointless.so run along and takecare of your home with its 60 bedrooms
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jun 10, 2004
I see you still haven't learned good manners baboon.
I smell a troll.
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LordDyran Posted Jun 10, 2004
Come now; my house only has 50 bedrooms!
I do have to commend your use of 'its' rather than 'it's', though. I didn't expect that of someone who'd write 'aught' as 'owt' or 'you're' as 'your'. 
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 10, 2004
no owt thats slang for anything
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LordDyran Posted Jun 10, 2004
No; 'aught' is sland for anything. 'Owt' is a phonetic misspelling of 'aught'.
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 10, 2004
no aught is for should ,owt is anything
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 10, 2004
well aught isnt what u said it was
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 10, 2004
Just to confuse the issue a little more, my dictionary offers 'aught' and 'ought' as alternative spellings of one another.
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LordDyran Posted Jun 10, 2004
From the dictionary.com site (as my OED is at home):
'aught1 also ought ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ôt)
pron.
Anything whatever: “Neither of his parents had aught but praise for him” (Louis Auchincloss).'
'Aught' means 'anything'. 'Owt' is not a word.
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 10, 2004
so lord byron's wrong thanks <smiley.
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LordDyran Posted Jun 10, 2004
I saw that, too; I've never heard of 'ought' being an alternate of 'aught', but I can believe it. Neither word has been used like that for a LONG time; when they were in common usage, spelling was still inconsistent.
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 10, 2004
As ive said in post 14you are wrong.u wanna come to yorkshire where owt is used everyday alond with nowt ?
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Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive Posted Jun 10, 2004
There's nowt wrong with 'owt' as a word from where I'm sitting.
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LordDyran Posted Jun 10, 2004
'Owt' and 'nowt' are how 'aught' and 'naught' are pronounced with a bit of an accent. Merely being the phonetic spelling does not make it correct, however.
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Boxing Baboon (half here an half there ) Posted Jun 11, 2004
lord are u telling us what we say is wrong ? we should know
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